South Dublin Live Open Call
South Dublin Live is a celebration of live performance in all its forms, bringing people together in local spaces in South Dublin County to connect in culture and creativity.
South Dublin Live 2025 is a programme of indoor and outdoor events, which will take place between Saturday 31st May and Saturday 1st.
Proposals for events to be part of the South Dublin Live 2025 programme are now invited from:
- Pofessional performers and producers; (ensembles or individuals) based in South Dublin County
- South Dublin County Cultural Organisations and South Dublin County Community Centres
The deadline for proposals is Thursday 22nd May at 4pm.
All genres of performance (Music, Spectacle, Circus, Street Arts, Theatre, Dance, Pantomime, etc.) are encouraged. Small scale solo performances and unplugged presentations through to amplified concerts will be considered. Outdoor performance events are particularly welcome. Submissions are through sdcc.submit.com
Applicants must register on the site to access the application form at this link https://submit.link/3Mh
First Music Contact - Regional Development Project
Hello and welcome to the first step in the First Music Contact Regional Development project in partnership with Dublin City Council Arts Office, Fingal County Council Arts Office, and South Dublin County Council Arts Office, https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/V6TZ22H
First Music Contact is the leading national music organisation for resourcing popular musicians and the independent music sector in Ireland. We deliver projects at key stages of an artist’s development, helping them develop real careers. These projects include Breaking Tunes, Ireland Music Week, and Music From Ireland.
This new project aims to develop a way of offering equal access to professional development services to musicians all around Ireland as well as developing a framework for supporting artists at a local level. For this project, we will be working in partnership with the Arts Offices in Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council and South Dublin County Council, to deliver a high level of professional development series to musicians in South Dublin County as well as creating an opportunity for you as the musicians in these areas to give feedback on what local supports you need to develop your professional careers moving forward.
Our aim is to better understand your current needs and aspirations as musicians and ascertain what stage you are at in your career. We will then use this information to inform our own work and to advocate locally and nationally for the things you need to progress your career. We will also use this information to develop a series of professional development workshops on themes nominated by you which you can access for free as part of the upcoming program of activity with your arts office.
This is a musician-first project and we want to find out what you need to get your music career off the ground and/or to take the next step. What are the practical things you need? – and what kind of advice/information would be useful to you? There will be a series of workshops and sessions, delivered online, on May 19th, 20th and 21st, with the second half of the series scheduled for later in June. These workshops will provide practical advice and music industry panels on many of the issues that were raised in the questionnaire. You will have an opportunity to attend these workshops for free and have an input into the process.
It’s your call. Your opportunity to have a say and a hand in shaping what happens next. It begins with this questionnaire which will close on Wednesday May 6th. First off, we’d appreciate about 5 minutes of your time to fill out this questionnaire. [If you’re a band, each member is free to answer the questions – the more the merrier] Please note that all the details provided by you will be treated as confidential and are solely for the purposes of this project. All information will be anonymised and aggregated. No individual submissions will be shared with any third-party. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/V6TZ22H
We will come back to you after we analyse the results of this survey and have designed the professional development panels based on what you’ve asked us for. We will then send links for dates and times for these professional development panels
The Colossus
Augmented Reality. Documentary theatre. Procession.
The Colossus is a socially engaged art project lead by Visual Artist John Conway, with Digital Artist Elaine Hoey and Theatre and Film Artist Shaun Dunne in collaboration with young people from North Clondalkin and mothers who have lost children to suicide
The Colossus was developed as an intergenerational project which creatively engaged young people from North Clondalkin and worked with the testimony of mother’s who have lost children to suicide, presenting a narrative on the context and aftermath of bereavement by suicide in the local area.
The Colossus is experienced as a 9-act audio documentary interspersed with augmented reality sculptures on a self-guided walking route around North Clondalkin. The walk begins and ends at North Clondalkin Library and is approximately 45 minutes duration.
Public viewing Thursday and Saturday throughout April and the beginning of May
Free but tickets – booking via www.thecolossus.ie The Colossus is part of IN CONTEXT 5 – Connect South Dublin County Council's Public art programme under the Per Cent for Art Scheme.
Call for Artists proposals
South Dublin County Council would like to invite proposals from Artists, in any discipline, for four new Public Art commissions that will focus on climate action, environment, tackling the urgency of climate change, and champion sustainability and / or biodiversity in the context of South Dublin County. These commissions are part of IN CONTEXT (1998-2025) South Dublin County Council’s Public Art Programme under the Per Cent for Art Scheme.
Imagined as a series of dynamic and ambitious public art commissions, IN CONTEXT 5 aims to gather temporary communities around inspirational ideas. Collaboration between artists and local, national or international partners will help to extend the depth of public engagement. It is now in its fifth phase of commissioning public art.
Timescale – open call, project development and completion
- 11th April: Call for artists proposals
- 30th May: Closing date for submissions
- 1st of May: Artist information session
- 30th June: Notification of commission awards and contracts
- December 2026: all commissions complete
For more information and to apply please visit SDCC - Submit
SCENE: South Dublin Creative Economy Network
South Dublin has a vibrant creative economy, from craft and design, artists of all disciplines, musicians, designers - to name just a few areas - and the Local Enterprise Office and its partners are creating this network to support people working in these sectors.
A comprehensive catalogue of support and a broad calendar of events for the members.
Membership is free and you can register at the following link. **Membership is open to businesses trading and located within the South Dublin County Council Administrative area only.
If you work within a creative industry or plan to, please register to become a member so that we can keep in contact with you and let you know what is going on.